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Today's News

  • USMC honors Hudson with scholarship

     

    Los Alamos resident Bill Hudson and his son, Ty, attended the 51th annual United States Marine Corps Scholarship Ball, which took place in April at the Grand Ballroom of the New York City Hilton Hotel. 

    Hudson, a Marine Corps Iwo Jima veteran, and his deceased wife, Maureen, were honored by Col. (Ret.) Jim Pritzker with a $10,000 memorial scholarship given to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation in their name. 

    Since 1962, the Foundation has awarded more than 30,000 scholarships, valued at over $70 million. For the 2012-2013 academic years, the Foundation has awarded over $6 million to 1,909 recipients. In addition, through the “Heroes Tribute Scholarship Award,” the Foundation has contributed a total of $30K to the children of Marines killed in the global war on terror.

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  • Los Alamos students competed in ‘RoboRave’
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  • Today in History for May 18th
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  • Santa Fe marijuana dispensary robbed at gunpoint

    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities are looking for three men who robbed a licensed medical marijuana distributor in Santa Fe on Friday.

    Lt. William Pacheco with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office says three men armed with handguns entered the New Mexico Top Organics dispensary around 10:45 a.m. and tied up the two employees who were working at the time.

    The men then took an undisclosed amount of marijuana and fled in one of the employee's vehicles.

    Deputies are asking for the public's help in finding the vehicle. It's a 2003 silver Honda CRV with New Mexico license plate 863-PCN.

    Pacheco says no one was hurt during the robbery, but the suspects should be considered armed and dangerous. He says this is the first time a dispensary in the county has been robbed.

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  • LA girls finish seventh in state golf tourney

     

    The Los Alamos Hilltopper girls golf team finished seventh among the eight teams competing in the Class 4A tournament this week.

    The Hilltopper girls team, along with individual qualifier Raul Roybal from the Hilltopper boys team, took part in the 4A championship Monday and Tuesday at the New Mexico State University championship course in Las Cruces.

    Los Alamos’ girls finished with a two-day total of 773. After finishing with a team round of 392 Monday, Los Alamos improved 11 strokes Tuesday.

    That wasn’t enough to make a serious move up the leaderboard, however. Kirtland Central, which has been a solid program for several years but struggled in the first day, finishing in sixth place, just five strokes ahead of the Hilltoppers, dropped 39 strokes in day two, coming in with a 348.

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  • LA baseball team falls in playoffs

     

    ALBUQUERQUE – To say the Piedra Vista Panthers didn’t waste much time jumping on the Los Alamos Hilltoppers would be something of an understatement.

    It only took one pitch for the Panthers to get their first runner on base in Thursday’s Class 4A quarterfinal baseball game. It only took three more for the Panthers to break the scoreless tie.

    Piedra Vista, the No. 1 seed in the 4A state tournament showed Los Alamos why it was seeded No. 1, scoring 16 runs in 2-1/2 innings. Piedra Vista routed Los Alamos 17-2 at La Cueva High School Thursday, advancing to today’s semifinal round.

    It was a tall order the Hilltoppers (19-10) were asked to fill. The eighth-seeded Hilltoppers not only had to contend with a big-hitting Panther lineup but were also going up against a team they’d had little success against during the regular season.

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  • Tripping over grammar

     

    There’s an old joke about a linguistics professor lecturing on the similarities of grammar and math.  The professor says, “In English, as in math, two negatives make a positive.  And in English, again just like in math, two positives never make a negative.”

     A student quips back, “Yeah. Right.”

     One of the great strengths of the English language is its ability to convey meaning even when it misused, abused, and diffused.  Even the most educated tongue occasionally trips over the rules of grammar.

     I myself, and sometimes me, gets lost among the trees that define proper speech.

     See how I discretely included me, myself and I as among the most educated?  Well, nothing could be farther from the truth.

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  • Improving women's financial literacy

     

    By Jason Alderman

    Are the 70 percent of the developing world’s adult population with no formal bank account doomed to a life of economic uncertainty and financial illiteracy? If a woman’s culture dictates that she should always put her family’s financial needs ahead of her own, can she learn to set aside money for her own retirement without feeling guilty?

    These are just some of the complex issues raised at the seventh annual Financial Literacy and Education Summit hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Visa Inc. Renowned U.S. and international financial experts and journalists led a lively discussion – and fielded Twitter questions from roughly 2,000 participants – around the theme, “Improving Women’s Financial Literacy & Capabilities Globally.”

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  • Pastor Chuck: What is the definition of the Anti-Christ?

     

    “Is Islam the antichrist?”—Steve

     

    First, the term “antichrist”: there is a particular eschatological or “end times” set of beliefs drawn from several biblical passages (which include, among others, II Thess. 2:3-9; Rev. 13:4-8; see Ezek. 38-39; Dan. 7:23-26; 8:23-25). 

    This perspective purports that one day, prior to the Second Coming of Christ, a political figure will appear on the world stage. 

    He will gain immense popularity and wield vast power. 

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  • Church listings 5-17-13

     

    Baha’i Faith

    For information, email losalamosla@gmail.com. For general information, call the Baha’i Faith phone at 1-800-228-6483.

    Bethlehem Lutheran

    Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, a member of the ELCA is at 2390 North Road. 662-5151, bethluth.com. Worship services are at 8:15 and 10:45 a.m., with coffee and doughnuts served between services during our Education Hour of classes for all ages. The preaching is biblical by our Pastors Bruce Kuenzel and Nicolé Ferry, the music is lively, children are welcome and abundant and a well-staffed nursery is provided. All are welcome.

    Bryce Ave. Presbyterian

    The church is located at 3333 Bryce Ave. The Rev. Henry Fernandez preaches, bapca.org, info@bapca.org. For information, call 672-3364.

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